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Dear Parents,
Happy New Year to you and your families. I am writing to provide an update regarding the opening of school at the start of the Spring term.
I am sure you will have been watching the news regularly and growing increasingly concerned about the number of cases of COVID across the country and the confusion over school opening.
Following a review of the school's risk assessment and due to reduced staffing levels, I regret to inform you that we have made the decision to only open the schools this week to children whose parents are key workers or who are deemed vulnerable.
For all other children we will be moving to remote education and therefore children will be learning from home from Wednesday 6th January 2021. Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th January are both planned INSET days and children are not expected in school.
We have not been in a position to make this decision until this afternoon and we will be writing to you tomorrow with further details.
I am aware that you will have many questions and Senior Leaders are working out the details as I write to you. I realise that this decision will cause significant disruption to families but the situation we face is very serious. You have been very supportive of our school and I know that we will continue to work together through these very challenging times.
Leaders wanted to inform you of this decision in order to give as much notice as possible for the necessary arrangements to be made. A further letter will be sent tomorrow giving more details.
Yours sincerely
C Lucas
Dear Parents,
Update on wider opening to children
Thank you for your continued patience and support. As you are aware, the Government has asked schools to open more widely and to invite specific year groups to access their learning on the school site.
Leaders, supported by Create Partnership Trust have been working hard at ensuring this request can be fulfilled while ensuring that every action, in order to minimise the risk to the health and safety of each child and adult while at school, is taken.
The school has remained open to key worker families and vulnerable groups since 23rd March and throughout lockdown. This provision will continue until the end of the summer term.
Welfare calls from the school to each family have been made weekly since 23rd March and throughout lockdown. Working under the guidance of Public Health England and the Government, school staff have worked off site. In order to follow professional safeguarding guidance, welfare calls have been made by staff as they access the site. Now that guidance allows staff to work on site, our welfare calls can now be completed by the specific class teacher. I know our families have valued these calls as it’s enabled you to keep in touch with us and us with you. These calls will continue. As will the ability for you to contact your child’s year group through the email system found on each year group page on the school website.
Leaders are planning to open the school more widely as follows:
Week beginning Monday 22nd June – Year 1
Week beginning Monday 29th June-Year 6 and Reception
These groups have been identified by the Government.
The Trustees of Create Partnership Trust have read and signed off the school’s risk assessment. This risk assessment template was provided by Birmingham Local Authority. All Department for Education guidance has been followed.
We are able to confirm the following:
Social Distancing
Plans have been made upon the basis that social distancing guidance can be maintained in school.
Social distancing for adults
Learning from home
In response to feedback from our parental community we have introduced a weekly family learning project. Teachers have carefully planned learning around a common theme and personalized it so that every primary school aged pupil can access the learning. We are fully aware that for families with more than 1 child, access to technology may be difficult; therefore, we have planned learning in such a way that the use of technology isn’t vital. Teachers have also planned learning in the core subjects and have continued to set work on Bug Club. The weekly family projects can be accessed from the School’s website, through the year group page, under the tab “weekly homework projects”. We are asking any work is saved and brought into school when guidance allows. We will then host one of our successful pop up events. This week’s project is based around the National Refuge week.
What next?
Staff are phoning each family in Year 1 today to find out how many children are planning to attend on Monday.
Specific details about attending school will be sent to Year 1 families via email today. Tomorrow videos will be posted onto the school website showing key details to enable parents to prepare their child for returning.
Next week, staff will contact families of Years 6 and Reception children and repeat the process.
If there are any further questions please contact the school either via phone, year group page or when the welfare call is carried out.
Thank you for your continued support.
C Lucas
Head teacherAT HOME?
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The local authority is consulting with parents to ascertain their views about childcare in Birmingham. The consultation will include views about full daycare, out of school places, holiday places, Early Education Entitlement places, accessing places for children with SEND etc.
This is an exciting opportunity for parents to have a say about what childcare they need / what they use and we would like parents to participate. There is a survey on Be Heard (www.birminghambeheard.org.uk<http://www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/>) running from 24th February until 31st March 2020. Please help Birmingham Local Authority capture as many views as possible by completing the survey.
Thank you.
Friday 13 March 2020
Get your kit on for Sport
Relief 2020!
All children are invited to wear sports clothes to school on Friday 13 March 2020 , with a T-shirt in their house colour.
No football shirts or clothing with logos, please.
More info can be found on our useful documents / links page under the Parent tab.
Dear Parents,
RE Coronavirus Update
I am writing to reassure you that school leaders supported by Create Partnership Trust are taking our responsibility around the Coronavirus seriously. As a school, we continue to follow guidance from the Department for Education and the Chief Medical Officer.
The most recent update is clear that anyone experiencing symptoms, even if mild, after travelling from mainland China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia or Macau in the last 14 days is advised to stay indoors and contact NHS 111.
There is further specific advice around returning from Iran, lockdown areas in Northern Italy, special care zones in South Korea or the Hubei province since February 19th, you should stay indoors and contact NHS 111.
Furthermore, if you have returned from Northern Italy (not including Pisa, Florence and Rimini), Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos or Myanmar since February 19th and are developing symptoms - even mild ones - stay indoors and call NHS 111.
There is a map, published on 27th February by the Government, showing specific areas under containment measures. Please go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-specified-countries-and-areas/covid-19-specified-countries-and-areas-with-implications-for-returning-travellers-or-visitors-arriving-in-the-uk
Please continue to make sensible and informed decisions around travel and to talk to us if you plan to go abroad. Should I be made aware that anyone has travelled to any of the places named above, we will indeed follow the advice laid out by the NHS and Department of Education around isolation.
In school, we continue to make sure children are washing their hands regularly and using tissues for sneezes and cold. It is widely publicised by the World Health Organisation that soap or hand gel can kill the virus. To that end, we are asking visitors to clean/sanitise their hands on entry to school. Please don’t be offended if you are asked to do this.
We will continue to share up-to-date guidance from the Department of Education and NHS with you as we receive it.
If you have any questions or queries, please come and speak to either myself or a member of staff. We will update our webpages and twitter feed as necessary.
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss C Lucas
Headteacher
We are having a special dinner day on Tuesday 3rd March, to celebrate ‘World Book Day’.
More info can be found on our useful documents / links page under the Parent tab.
How quickly has this last six weeks gone? Very quickly. Thank you to everyone for your continued support. Our children and the school as a whole continue to improve. It was lovely to see so many people attending our parent teacher appointments this week.
More info can be found on our useful documents / links page under the Parent tab.
If you would like your son/daughter to attend the Education in Focus after-school photography club, lasting for one hour from 3.15 – 4.15 on Tuesday afternoons for six weeks commencing 21st January, please complete and return the registration form which can be found on our useful documents / links page under the Parent tab.
Dear Parents / Carers,
Today we have had an increased number of children who are away from school due to symptoms of sickness and diarrhoea. We have contacted the School Nursing Team to advise us on how to support our families to reduce the risk of our children becoming ill. Incidents of such illnesses can spread easily from person to person, and can increase during the colder months of the year.
The following recommendations are to reduce the risk of illness, and we kindly ask that you carry these actions out, to prevent further exposure for your child/ren and family.